AuthorTopic: Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (Read 5167 times)

According to the equipment manifest for this tour, the following mics were used:

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Over the years there have been some "short runs" of products that most people are not aware of.

A couple I remember are the Crown MT1000. NOT the 1200. It was the first one out-but not for long.

There was also a Crown MT1200 that was a cross between the MA and MT1200. I guess it was during the transition to the MA series.

I bought some of the first Crown Microtech amps when they were introduced in the mid 80s. As a big Crown fan at the time, and user of multiple black-face DC300A-II models (the upside-down ones) I jumped at a chance to get improved power, efficiency, and packing density (The fans are inside? I'll take that!). Eventually had three 1000 amps, only blew up one (on monitors at a Lonnie Mack club-gig). They were crude amps by today's standards but I suppose they competed fairly well with their contemporaries. It would be decades before I bought another Crown product! Of course, the Macrotech Series was an improvement over the Microtech in just about every way imaginable, but I'd already moved in a different direction.

...and to sort of get back on topic, I do remember those funky gray little Shures, and Stop Making Sense is my favorite live concert film ever. David Byrne had moments of genius during his career.

I bought some of the first Crown Microtech amps when they were introduced in the mid 80s. Eventually had three 1000 amps, only blew up one (on monitors at a Lonnie Mack club-gig). They were crude amps by today's standards but I suppose they competed fairly well with their contemporaries. It would be decades before I bought another Crown product! Of course, the Macrotech Series was an improvement over the Microtech in just about every way imaginable, but I'd already moved in a different direction.

What I "heard" was that the original 1000 blew up a lot. And they discontinued it and reworked it and came up with the 1200. Which was a very solid amp.

I had several brought to me to repair-and when I saw the insides and the damage done, I turned the repair down. To much work.

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A complex question is easily answered by a simple-easy to understand WRONG answer!

shure made for a hot moment sm57s and sm58s without output transformers and called them 77s and 78s. The David Byrne vocal mic looks to be one. Why do I have this useless information rattling around in my head? Because I still have a few of those mics rolling around in the b stock mic drawers.

I also bought several SM 78s, they did not have the "classic" Sure transformer distortion, and were available in several "designer" colors. The pseudo-suede like finish picked up dirt like a sponge, so the mics would look ratty in a month, and you could not re-paint them with any normal paint. They did not "catch on" with the touring business, sold them all off by 1982 or 1983.